You heard us right. The Republican candidate is more progressive on animal rights issues than the Democrat Christine Quinn.

In an interview with AM 970, Mr. Lhota said, "Quite honestly, there are ways to do this without horses. You can have carriages with motors if you want to see Central Park. The reality is we live in the 21st Century. Do we really need to have horses on the streets of New York?"

Mr. Lhota's endorsement comes just after our hugely successful mayoral forum where candidates Bill de Blasio, Bill Thompson and John Liu all publicly voiced serious concern for the horses and voiced their support for the Horseless Carriage Pilot Program.

We'll take Lhota's endorsement to end horse carriage abuse over animal-foe Christine Quinn any day. Now, we must defeat her. She's down 5-10 points in the latest polls -- help us keep her numbers going down!

A generous donor has offered to match donations up to $20,000 to end the horse abuse in New York. But this offer is only good until Memorial Day so we have to act fast!